Definitions for ontogenesis
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Princeton's WordNet
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis(noun)
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
"he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
Wiktionary
ontogenesis(Noun)
the arising or development of an individual organism.
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